I N D U S T R I A L & I N T E R I O R D E S I G N
Critical Interrogation Practice
Critical Probing was aimed at challenging the current state of Industrial Design. This potential to use the language of design to pose questions, provoke, and inspire is this section's defining feature.
Critical Probing involved a series of projects that were carried out by a team of 5 members from different streams of design discipline at Central Saint Martins. This team involved Heleen Sintobin, Charlotte Kidger, Muneera Alsharhan, Jiayi Li, and Affan Deshmukh. We as a team through extensive research, analysis, experiment, communication and performance, considered how design can give rise to a being in the making, a ‘Pathfinder’.
Project 1: Hack the city
Newly landed on a foreign planet (i.e. London), finding yourself in a team of strangers, you uncover the priorities of your group by making sense of the values and norms of the society around you.
The objective is to design a physical intervention that ‘nudges’ the host community (the Londoners) into a similar state of critical awareness.
Our brief was to design a meaningful ‘trans-cultural’ eating experience drawing on the profile and expertise of our team. This meal experience will be authentic and memorable in the sense that it reflects a particular time, place and set of interactions; the experience of strangers brought together by a common need. Hence we looked for psychological nuance, an understanding of communication through behavior, and specificity.
Can we develop a trans-cultural eating experience that is distinctive and resistant to standardization?
Project 2: Food
